What's the difference between tasty and yummy?

Tasty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.
  • (n.) Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Internet search advertising is set to remain buoyant, with a tasty 25% growth rate.
  • (2) If you buy your tarragon from a garden centre, beware of that rather bitter, dragonish impostor, A. dracunculoides, or Russian tarragon, which is a much less refined and tasty thing.
  • (3) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
  • (4) read one banner, against the woman whose family is reviled for taking tasty slices of state business and contracts, and plundering Tunisia's wealth.
  • (5) My roast beef sandwich with crispy onions and celeriac was tasty, although the decision to serve it on a slight sweet buttermilk roll is a curious one.
  • (6) We don't know too many cardinals, but we know what she means: this is gloriously tasty food, to be cooked for those you really love.
  • (7) Naive boy from the country moves to the big city and things go wrong.” We are drinking herbal tea and eating (very tasty) vegetables in Moby’s newly opened vegan restaurant in blue-skied Los Angeles.
  • (8) I make ful cobi with my cookery students: carrot, peas, cauliflower and sweetcorn, gently stir-fried with mustard seeds, ginger, garlic and green chillies, and they're amazed how tasty it is.
  • (9) Slovakia, not starring revelation Vladimir Weiss Jnr., or indeed Sestak, but at least tasty former Chelsea winger Miroslav Stoch comes in: Mucha, Pekarik, Skrtel, Durica, Zabavnik, Hamsik, Strba, Kucka, Stoch, Vittek, Jendrisek.
  • (10) Annie's soda bread Photograph: Pai9arhonalcna for the Guardian Easy peasy and very tasty.
  • (11) After another two kilometres down the boulevard is the Something Good roadhouse for a tasty burger and shake to-go.
  • (12) In its review , the Economis t came up with a useful everyday analogy: high-frequency traders are like "the people who offer you tasty titbits as you enter the supermarket to entice you to buy; but in this case, as you show appreciation for the goods, they race through the aisles to mark the price up before you can get your trolley to the chosen counter".
  • (13) Another new spot, Victor (11 rue Victor Massé), offers a good deal for lunch, with a tasty €12 plat du jour that includes dishes such as tender veal sautéed with baby leeks and hazelnuts, and crisp rocket salad and roasted new potatoes.
  • (14) The ASP drink is not only effective but also fragrant, tasty, refreshing and thirst quenching, and it appears to have no side effects.
  • (15) Tasty fruits and vegetables were given to patients to eat before major meals for better nutrient adherence and adequacy.
  • (16) If I'm out, I can guarantee she will not have left me anything nutritious and tasty in the oven.
  • (17) Lukaku was denied a second by Allsop after Seamus Coleman delivered a tasty cross from the right but Bournemouth’s pressure continued to build, their belief never wavering.
  • (18) The difference was especially marked for the categories "synthetic - natural", "unpleasant - very tasty", and "changeable - stable in times".
  • (19) The women evaluated margarine less "tasty" but "lighter", and "healthier" than butter.
  • (20) There’s tasty tapas too – olives marinated with oranges and lemons, cheese with homemade marmalade and salchichón salami, great paired with local Moscatel wine.

Yummy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You may be greeted with a shotgun and a suspicious snarl as we were – then a plate of yummy moose meat, cooked on a blazing fire.
  • (2) If we stay beautiful we’re sexually objectified as selfish, entitled “yummy mummies” or Milfs.
  • (3) But M&S has tried to target by age – so there's a yummy mummy section, an aging squares department and a pensioners' aisle.
  • (4) He once told a journalist that he stayed so thin because he ate "baby food" but he meant "comfort food", leading to the oft-repeated and not entirely unbelievable notion of him subsisting on Cow & Gate Yummy Harvest Chicken.)
  • (5) All these places, especially Good 2 Go Taco, offer vegetarian and healthy options that are just as yummy.
  • (6) Throw in, too, the challenge of what it means to be a good enough parent, given what economist Heather Boushey calls the "ship-has-sailed reality" that only the richest can afford to keep a full-time yummy mummy in the house.
  • (7) For picnic supplies, the yummy Monkland Cheese Dairy is excellent for replacing any fat you burned off during your swim.
  • (8) "Thirty years ago my husband wasn't even allowed in the delivery room – you can't imagine that happening now," a yummy mummy's mummy told me.
  • (9) It was a cultural ideal, and probably bore no more relation to the lives of working mothers than the Yummy Mummy did to mothers who didn't work.
  • (10) If that’s for the yummy-mummy crowd, Richard Nicoll worked with Sweaty Betty – hardly a brand on most London fashion week designers’ radars – to design something that fits in with the rest of us.
  • (11) Watercress and lentil salad in a citrus dressing Angela Kim's yummy watercress and lentil salad.
  • (12) 9.38am BST Tristram Hunt , the new shadow education secretary, once dismissed free schools as "a vanity project for yummy mummies".
  • (13) "Yummy mummys" – or "yummy mummys and John" as it was known until I complained that the name implied I wasn't yummy – is what our neonatal class became when it moved from the health centre to a cafe, and our children moved from inside to outside.
  • (14) It's a beautiful film called Learning to Drive and it stars me and Ben Kingsley and it's delicious and yummy and funny, funny, funny, and very moving."
  • (15) As shadow education secretary he has made a few gaffes that may have infuriated the very middle Englanders he seeks to woo, including referring to parents who like free schools as “yummy mummies” and questioning whether nuns make good teachers.